Forbes Magazine's List of America's Best Colleges

In 2008, Forbes.com began publishing an annual list of "America's Best Colleges".[1] Post-graduate success (self-reported salaries of alumni from PayScale, and data from the federal Department of Education) constitutes 35% of the score. Student debt loads constitute 20% of the score. Student experience (retention rates reported by the Department of Education, and data from Niche) constitutes 20% of the score. Graduation rates constitute 12.5% of the score. Academic success (using both the percentage of a school's student body that goes on to obtain doctorate degrees, and those students who have won one of a diverse array of prestigious academic awards) constitutes 12.5%. Public reputation is not considered, which causes some colleges to score lower than in other lists. A three-year moving average is used to smooth out the scoring.

Starting in 2013, four schools that had admitted to misreporting admissions data were removed from the list for two years. The four removed colleges were Bucknell University, Claremont McKenna College, Emory University, and Iona College.[2]

Rankings history
Year Top college or university
2008 Princeton University[3]
2009 United States Military Academy[4]
2010 Williams College[5]
2011 Williams College[5][6]
2012 Princeton University[7]
2013 Stanford University[8]
2014 Williams College[9]
2015 Pomona College[10][11][12]
2016 Stanford University[13]
2017 Harvard University[14]
2018 Harvard University[14]
2019 Harvard University[14]

References
  1. "America's Top Colleges". Forbes. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
  2. "'Forbes' Boots 4 Colleges From Its Rankings". Inside Higher Ed. July 25, 2013. Retrieved May 12, 2014.
  3. "America's Best Colleges 2008". Forbes. August 13, 2008. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  4. "America's Best Colleges 2009". Forbes. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  5. Noer, Michael (August 3, 2011). "America's Top Colleges". Forbes. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  6. Goldstein, Rachel (August 5, 2011). "Williams College Takes Top Spot in Forbes' University Rankings". Time. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  7. "Forbes Publishes Rankings of America's Top Colleges: Princeton University is No. 1". Forbes. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  8. Howard, Caroline. "America's Top Colleges 2013". Forbes. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  9. Howard, Caroline. "America's Top Colleges 2014". Forbes. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  10. Howard, Caroline (July 29, 2015). "America's Top Colleges Ranking 2015". Forbes. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  11. Bravo, Kristina (July 30, 2015). "Pomona College is No. 1 on Forbes list of best in US". Southern California Public Radio. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  12. Rand, Jory (July 30, 2015). "Forbes ranks Pomona College as top college in US". ABC7 Los Angeles. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  13. Howard, Caroline. "America's Top Colleges 2016". Forbes. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  14. "Forbes Releases Annual Ranking of America's Top Colleges". Forbes. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
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